fourneaux
\fuʁ.no\
The verdict
“fourneaux” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,731. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,731
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fourneau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourneaux · fourneaux · French
fourneaux · rank #20,731 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,731
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fourche
Nearest frequency peer: fourche (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « fourneaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fonciers
fonciers
79,273 corpus weight
- fouetter
fouetter
79,272 corpus weight
- fourche
fourche
79,271 corpus weight
- fourneaux
fourneaux
79,270 corpus weight
- frontal
frontal
79,269 corpus weight
- frégate
frégate
79,268 corpus weight
What this shows « fourneaux » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fourneaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fuʁ.no\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fourneaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around fourneaux (IPA \fuʁ.no\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,731 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de fourneau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for fourneaux, with forms such as "ffourneaux", "foruneaux", and "founreaux". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "fourreau", "fourneau", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fourneaux, spelled F-O-U-R-N-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fourneau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fourneaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il employait maintenant les raclures de routes, les curures de fossés, les cendres et les escarbilles de fourneaux, surtout les déchets de laine, dont il avait acheté le balayage dans une draperie de Châteaudun.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffourneaux
- foruneaux
- founreaux
- fourenaux
- fournaeux
- fourneauxx
- fourneaxu
- fourneuax
- fournneaux
- fourrneaux
- fuorneaux
- ofurneaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fourneaux - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fourneaux", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).